Teaching IELTS Speaking: Tips and Tricks
Teaching IELTS Speaking: Tips and Tricks Recently, IELTS has become one of the major language tests worldwide. As a result, markets have appeared, both virtually and in the physical world, […]
Teaching Resources for ESL Teachers – A Guide
Teaching Resources for ESL Teachers – A Guide Since I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with building my teaching library. A library can be many things — a place of […]
Songs to Teach English – The Beatles
Songs to Teach English – The Beatles Recent surveys, such as Kaplan (2013) , have shown that, in the ELT classroom, music is the most popularly used form of all media types […]
Teach English with Dvolver
Teach English with Dvolver When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop she attended. The website is called […]
A Short Guide to Comma Use
A Short Guide to Comma Use Those of us who teach English as a foreign language are only too well aware of the need to stretch our imaginations, as we […]
Punctuation in ESL – Why It Matters
Punctuation in ESL – Why It Matters A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese, Polish or […]
Applying Learning Theories: A Case Study in Mexico City
Applying Learning Theories: A Case Study in Mexico City How can we identify our teaching based on different learning theories? English (as a Second Language) Teachers have acted as facilitators […]
Teaching Low-Level Learners ESL Using Authentic Materials
Teaching Low Level Learners ESL Using Authentic Materials A 1-2-1 student of mine has just passed his (Hungarian B2 CEFR level) matura exam, in which he got 85%. What is […]
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level ESL […]
Subject Raising in English Grammar
Subject Raising: Do You Happen To Know? Subject raising is my all-time favourite English grammar structure. It’s one of the craziest things you can do in English, and yet it’s […]